2 papers
physics.bio-ph2025
Quantifying the compressibility of the human brain
Nicholas J. Weaver, Joshua I. Faskowitz, Richard F. Betzel +1
In the human brain, the allowed patterns of activity are constrained by the correlations between brain regions. Yet it remains unclear which correlations -- and how many -- are nee…
q-bio.QM2025
Minimax entropy: The statistical physics of optimal models
David P. Carcamo, Nicholas J. Weaver, Purushottam D. Dixit +1
When constructing models of the world, we aim for optimal compressions: models that include as few details as possible while remaining as accurate as possible. But which details --…